LEG 42 Meeting

Forty-second meeting of the LDC Expert Group (LEG 42) The LEG conducts two meetings every year. It will hold its 42nd meeting at the margins of the Botswana Global Adaptation Week and one of the key deliverables of the meeting is to finish the draft rules of procedure, as mandated by COP 26 (decision 15/CP.26, para. 19) for adoption by COP 27 and CMA 4.

The following are highlights of some of the products and activities of the LEG:

• NAP Writing Support: finalizing the NAP and developing project profiles and concept notes;
• Open NAPs: direct country support to the LDCs in finalizing the NAP and implementing priority projects and programmes under the NAP
• NAP Data Initiative: packaging useful data and analysis for ready use in assessments during the formulation of NAPs without requiring extensive programming and data analysis skills
• NAP -SDG iFrame: a systems approach to framing adaptation in the context of SDGs and various other lenses
• NAP Central: the official repository of NAPs and related information
• NAP Expos: global outreach event on NAPs and on advancing adaptation
• Annual Progress Report on NAPs: annual consolidated information on the progress of developing countries in the formulation and implementation of NAPs, including support provided and received
• Catalog of NAP Priorities and Projects: compilation of adaptation priority projects, programmes, and policies seeking support as contained in NAPs

The LEG 42 meeting is happening from 29 to 31 August 2022. Attendance is by invitation only